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W. H. HAYDEN. LAGE FASTBNING.

Patented May 19,1891,

UNITED STATns PATENT FFTCE.

WILLIAM ITI. I'IAYDEN, OF MIIVAUKEE, WISCONSIN LACE-FASTENING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 452,7' 53, dated May 19, 1891.

Application filed March 8, 1889. Serial No. 302,564. (No model.)

T0 all whom, t may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM H. HAYDEN, of Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee and State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Lace- Fastenings; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, 'which will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

The obj ect of my invention is to provide an inexpensive and easily-manipulated lace-fastening for shoes, gloves, umbrellas, and such other articles as may be provided with lace or cord fastenings.

It consists, essentially, of two elastic hooks struck in opposite directions from a single metallic plate.

In the accompanying drawings like letters designate the same parts in the several figures.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved device specially adapted for a shoelace fastening. Fig. 2 shows the fastening as cut from a blank before the hooks and fastening-prongs are bent; and Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the fastening as applied to a shoe, and illustrating the method of securing the lace.

A represent the base or body of the fastening, B B the hooks, and G C prongs for the attachment of 'he fastening to the shoe or other article, a l stamped or cut out of sheet metal, preferr bly spring-brass, in approximately the shape shown in Fig. 2. The hooks B B are cutside by side in the central portion of the body A of the fastening, and are bent in opposite directions, as shown in Fig. 1, the ends of the hook being turned outwardly, so as to readily receive the lace between them andthe base A. The prongs C C` are bent backward at right angles to the base or body A, as ,shown in Fig. 1, ready to be inserted thro gh the material to which the fastening is applied and clasped over the back.

Ityis my design to provide a labor-saving machine to be operated manually or driven by suitable power for attaching the fastening in large numbers to shoes or other articles.

The prongs C C are preferably made sharp, so as to form the perforations in the material to which the fastening is to be attached.

The device may be made of various sizes and styles adapted to the different uses to which it may be applied, and in place of the prongs C C any other suitable means maybe employed for attaching the fastening to the article with which it is to be used. For instance, that portion of the base between its outside edge and the opening formed by the turned-up hook is adapted to have a thread passed around it and into the article to which the fastening is to be secured, as is obvious, and thus it may be made to constitute the attaching means in place of the prongs.

Referring to Fig. 3, E represents an ordinary shoe-lace, and F F lacing-studs of the usual form. From the upper lacing-stud, on each side of the shoe, the lace is carried around the lower rearwardly-projecting hook B of the fastening on the opposite side of the slice, and thence underneath and around the forwardly-projecting hook, which supports the loose end of the lace and prevents vit from readily disengaging itself from the fastening.

There the fastenings are used in pairs, as shown in Fig. 3, they are made rights and lefts; but in place of the double lace and the two fastenings shown in Fig. 3 a single lace and fastening maybe as effectually used not only in connection with a shoe, but with other articles with which a lace is commonly employed.

For the purpose of a shoe-lace fastening I prefer to form, as shown in' Fig. 9, on the lower edge of the base or-body A, just in front of the lower prong C, a small ear D, which is turned outwardly at right angles, as shown in Figs. 1 and 3, or less.

In carrying the lace E to the fastening it is first passed under the ear D, which holds it away from the forwardly-projecting hook B, while the end is carried forward from the rear hook underneath and around it.

In forming the fastening suflicient space should be left between the hooks to readily receive the lace in passing the same from the rear hook around the front one.

The fastening may be j apanned, enameled, plated, or otherwise suitably finished for the various purposes for which it is used.

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It will he .observed that the point of one hook before it is bent rearward points or extends in the direetion of the base of the other hook, so that the metfil forming eneh hook can he given one bend or fold in thedireetion of its base to complete the hook, with the two hooks thus formed pointing in opposite direetions.

I claiml. A lace-fastening comprising :t hase-platte and two oppositelyturned hooks integral therewith, each struck out of line with the other and bentbztel: upon tselfoversnid baseplnte, and means for securing the fastening to the article with whieh it is to be used, suhstantiallyzis and for the purposes set forth.

2. A lace-fastening composed of twohooks Witnesses:

CHAs. L. Goss, JAMES Il. BARRY. 

